Guest Speaker - Jeremy Foote

“Understanding the Emergence and Survival of New and Small Online Communities”

Abstract

Jeremy Foote’s research focuses on understanding the processes by which online groups succeed or fail in meeting their goals, and how individuals shape and are shaped by the groups they participate in. His work is at the intersection of communication and computer science, exploring why people start new communities, the pathways they take to join and participate, and the conditions that promote cooperation and knowledge construction. He also investigates how automated systems, such as algorithms and bots, influence social cognition. Much of his research uses computational and statistical tools to analyze large datasets.

Bio

Jeremy Foote is an Assistant Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University and a faculty affiliate of the Community Data Science Collective, a multi-university research group studying online communities. His research examines the dynamics of online communities, focusing on the factors that influence their growth, sustainability, and impact. He is particularly interested in the social and technical conditions that foster cooperation, knowledge creation, and the role of automated systems in shaping social interactions.